MARCIA SCHEINER

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“For autistic individuals, there’s really sort of two paths. There are those today, about 35% percent of 18 year olds with an autism diagnosis who do go on to college or some form of post-secondary education, and then those who don’t. Of those who don’t and want to work, there’s about a 55% unemployment rate. And those who go to college and then look for employment afterwards, there’s about a 75 to 85% underemployment rate. So you can see the unemployment rates whether you go to college or not are astronomical, but they’re even higher if you go to college, which is sort of counterintuitive.” President and Founder of Integrate Autism Employment Advisors ("Integrate"), co-author of The Neurodivergent Job Candidate: Recruiting Autistic Professionals and An Employer’s Guide to Managing Professionals on the Autism Spectrum (2017) and frequent speaker on autism employment. Prior to founding Integrate in 2010, Ms. Scheiner held senior management positions in the financial services industry. Ms. Scheiner is a graduate of Wellesley College and has an MBA from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. She is the parent of an adult son with autism. · www.integrateadvisors.org · www.creativeprocess.info